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by dsacco 9y ago
Do you mean that sovereignty grants that authority in principle, or in actuality? If the United States doesn't enforce the demands of another country with respect to a company in its borders, the company can freely ignore those demands
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by dsacco 9y ago
To be clear I don't think Mark Zuckerberg is sociopathic, and I don't think it's productive or fair to speculate about him like this. My comment about his technical and business capabilities was intended in good faith, not as
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's also true.
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by dsacco 9y ago
It's definitely a relevant point. If a large group of people who are not working seem to be predominantly unhappy, that's legitimate information that may be useful for discussion about universal basic income. You can make a compel
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by dsacco 9y ago
To be fair to the parent commenter's point, I don't think your restatement of the article's characterization is any more accurate with respect to the hearing itself. There were basic questions he failed to answer, complex que
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by dsacco 9y ago
> He stole the idea from the twin brothers who hired him and used the leading metric of @university email addresses to create contextual-relational importance for viral growth, so it's not surprising. While uncharitably stated, in
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by dsacco 9y ago
Thanks for the video link, that was a great watch.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Do you think because of his responses and demeanor during the hearing or because of his overall leadership at Facebook? If it's both, which one of those made you consciously think about it first?
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by dsacco 9y ago
FYI, that link requires a login. Is it supposed to be public?
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by dsacco 9y ago
The commenter didn’t make that “false equivalence.” Their point is that there are valid reasons a user might want to allow an application to access their messages. For example, reddit’s API allows applications to access messages, which is u
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is a pretty weak argument. Using a standard established by an RFC implies a user has read that standard about as much as using Facebook implies a user has read the TOS. The TOS establishes a transitive condition that the user agrees to
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by dsacco 9y ago
What is WAI? I searched for “WAI” by itself and with “Facebook” and got nothing useful. You’re the only person using this acronym and no one else seems to be responding to it; do you mind clarifying it?
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by dsacco 9y ago
What hubris?
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Data Abuse Bounty: Facebook Now Rewards for Reports of Data Abuse(newsroom.fb.com)
2 points by dsacco 9y ago|0 comments
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by dsacco 9y ago
What are those "clear and studied effects"? More importantly, just how "indirectly" do one of those 20,000 employees need to be tied to the work you dislike before you'd acknowledge that rebuffing them is silly? Are
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by dsacco 9y ago
> "I wrote software that took advantage of addictive behavior in new ways" "My new flagging mechanism, tailored to prevent users from leaving the platform, led to someone committing suicide after being unable to block an
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by dsacco 9y ago
You'll pass on a potentially excellent hire simply because of the name on their resume? You won't even expend a modicum of effort to interview the candidate or see if they're at all involved in the specific work you despise?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Really? Are we at the point now where we're openly calling Facebook employees sociopaths?
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is an exceptionally poor way to "summarize" the employees of any large company, including Facebook. Your personal ethics aside, whenever you're about to describe an entire company's staff using phrases like, "t
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by dsacco 9y ago
That argument is actually on strong footing in principle, because only one counterexample is required to demonstrate that something isn't universally true a priori. On the other hand, your argument is weak because 1) you attack a straw
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by dsacco 9y ago
"Lots of words"?! You just reduced the linked comment - a nuanced, neutrally presented argument that there are significant practical and philosophical difficulties inherent to refusing to develop technology for military applicatio
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Do you really want to have "I wrote an novel algorithm to track people" on your resume? If the algorithm is truly novel then yes, absolutely.
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by dsacco 9y ago
A credible scenario is one in which none of the parts of the story have a giant leap between them. For example, with your scenario: AGI gets built by a farming company Okay, sounds fine, keep going. gets programmed to farm more corn Yep
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by dsacco 9y ago
I used to use name.com and iwantmyname.com. Now I use domains.google because it's simple to manage DNS records, the user interface is very clear and straightforward, and it's automatically integrated with my existing GSuite accoun
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think this is probably the most reasonable example I've been given in this thread. However, as you admit this is still very far off from a hypothetical AI hellbent on destroying us while we watch helplessly.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Then what exactly was the new bad thing introduced by publishing it in the first place?
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by dsacco 9y ago
First you said it's clear, now you're saying it's highly speculative. Choose one.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Are you saying that if it were discovered to be both cheap and easy to create a super-pandemic using nothing more than household chemicals and a swab of your own snot, then you'd publish the results freely and in their entirety?
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is survivorship bias. How many weapons of mass destruction have been foretold by science fiction that have never been invented? More generally, how much technology has been written about in science fiction that we have only the faintes
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by dsacco 9y ago
I sound uncharitable because you posted a (from my perspectively, completely random) link to a research article in a different field and implored me to change my thinking, without any other commentary. That's not a substantive additi

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